I was not waving but flailing
Jun. 29th, 2005 02:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stillsostrangeI dislike flailing. To me flailing means drowning, dancing poorly, or generally not knowing what I'm doing.
I tried free-writing, but got lost. I try to outline, but can't see far enough ahead to make one. I have plot threads, but the shape keeps eluding me. I keep digging and digging but I'm not finding a dragon or a dinousaur or even the Strawberry Shortcake dolls I buried in my yard in fourth grade. I may be lost.
This book is getting on my nerves. Three months of drips and spatters and I have 15k, half of which isn't in order. My writerly self-esteem is being used to line the suck monkey cage right now.
The year's half over and I have two novels fizzling at 15k to show for it. Part of me wants to revise Dreams 'cause, hey, I know I can finish that, right? Right...?
Blah. This makes me a saaad panda.
I tried free-writing, but got lost. I try to outline, but can't see far enough ahead to make one. I have plot threads, but the shape keeps eluding me. I keep digging and digging but I'm not finding a dragon or a dinousaur or even the Strawberry Shortcake dolls I buried in my yard in fourth grade. I may be lost.
This book is getting on my nerves. Three months of drips and spatters and I have 15k, half of which isn't in order. My writerly self-esteem is being used to line the suck monkey cage right now.
The year's half over and I have two novels fizzling at 15k to show for it. Part of me wants to revise Dreams 'cause, hey, I know I can finish that, right? Right...?
Blah. This makes me a saaad panda.
